agglutinative, agglutinating:
Agglutinative (or agglutinating) languages are those which often combine their
stems with many
affixes to form long
words.
Many
languages of Mexico are agglutinative, some more than others.
For example, the word nehualmoyecastemojmolunijtzinutinemisquiöniin Mösiehuali has 18 syllables and requires a rather long sentence to translate it.
Contrast:
isolating,
fusional.
[Spanish:
aglutinante]